Sam K via Talk said on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:18:01 -0000
D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
I remember when Xeroxing was new and expensive. In 1967 or 1968 I used a copier at the old TPL Central Reference Library at College and St. George. I paid something like $0.25 a page! Real money then. It was some chemically thing, not Xerox. (I now have that book from which I copied a paper. You can too <https://archive.org/details/programmingsyste0000saul>)
Hugh, was this copy purple in colour and smelled of vinegar? or was it nail polish?
As an elementary school kid in the late 1950's, teachers passed out those purple printed papers all the time. As I remember, they smelled neither like vinegar or nail polish, but instead had this wonderful industrial smell such that every kid would sit there sniffing his paper. SteveT Steve Litt http://444domains.com